Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I’ll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The greatest writers of this age… are aware of the mystery of our existence.
The thing I was always most protective of was my mystery. I worried that if I gave too much of myself, then I would limit the characters I could fall into.
I’ve felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to – I don’t know what. Just to something bigger, to be in conversation with the mystery of everything.
‘E.T.’ and ‘Star Wars’ were cult movies then and opened up a brand new world of adventure and mystery. But as much as I would have loved to be friends with E.T., I realized that following in the footsteps of Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan was more realistic.
I get into this unfortunate thing when I’m touring for my books. I was in Spain, and the media asked me, ‘Who’s your favorite Spanish mystery writer?’ I’m totally flat-footed. I feel that I’m under-read when it comes to foreign writers.
I delve into cold cases by scouring the Internet for any digital crumbs authorities may have overlooked, then share my theories with the 8,000 or so mystery buffs who visit my blog regularly.
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn’t sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, ‘Let me try something else,’ and I wrote a mystery – but I didn’t know much about it.
Sometimes what you don’t show creates more of a mystery.
I think the reason I’m a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
There were screaming girls, I had to learn as a blind person how to run to a limousine otherwise they’d take my clothes off and stuff. I thought to myself ‘how could this happen?’ I mean I could see it, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, but Jose Feliciano? It was a mystery to me.
I love mystery novels… I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
Now comes the mystery.
I will never unravel the mystery of how a script gets into the hands of certain people.
I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.
I have written a few children’s books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called ‘The Package’, and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script – and it still just doesn’t work. It’s kind of a mystery how that happens.
Now that we are used to globalisation it’s hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from the western gaze. The Soviet bloc was a genuine mystery. Such was the dehumanisation of the Soviets that Sting could wonder in song if ‘the Russians love their children too.’
I enjoy privacy. I think it’s nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I’d like to preserve some of that.
I don’t think it’s good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery – of relationships and life in general – is to learn to live with the bits you don’t like.
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don’t know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
Healing and miracles have been a mystery to men of all times. To some, the phenomenon is frightening, while others find it exhilarating.
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Most animals are pragmatic about mysteries: If they run across something they don’t understand, all they care about is whether it’s edible and whether it’s dangerous. Humans, on the other hand, are drawn to the mystery for its own sake.
I go to the Congo or the Amazon, but every river has its mystery of what is down there.
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
I can’t tell you why, but I feel like I’m more me on radio than on television. It’s because I’m more relaxed. The reason I feel that way is a mystery to me, mind you.
The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don’t express or even know about pours out in our dreams.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N’ Roll Mystery Tour.
This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, – to give life’s best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.
A lot of what Trinidad is about is the feeling of the place, the atmosphere of the place, particularly at night, and the mystery of the forest.
Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.
When you try to unravel something you’ve written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
I enjoy privacy. I think it’s nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I’d like to preserve some of that.
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
I don’t think there’s any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
It’s kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I’ve witnessed – why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don’t know how and why that is.
You want to know the secret of life? It is to breathe in and out. And the mystery of life? You never know when it is going to end.
Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.
I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.
I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.
Veiling truth in mystery.
I’ve been typed as historical fiction, historical women’s fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance – all for the same book.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
I like places that are shrouded in mystery.
I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation – that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery.
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women’s worlds.
Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.
I have every sympathy for writers. It’s a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, ‘I’m not saying that’ or, ‘How about we move this to here? Wouldn’t that make that bit of the story better?’ But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It’s so impressive what they do with their bodies. It’s like painting: an abstraction.
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don’t jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.
